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The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work, Acts of Lesbian Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance. It examines essays, dialogues, and performance texts from theater directors, performers, theorists, playwrights, and performance writers against social and cultural constructs, performance theories, and performers' experiences to produce a diverse and challenging portrait of lesbian performance art. The book's penetrating scope covers drag queens, lesbian vampires, lesbian sex, solo artists, the art of collaboration, lesbian aesthetics, and lesbian playwrights writing straight and illustrates why performance art is one of the most dynamic forums in which women can create, control, and produce their work without artistic constraint.
List of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
- Introductions
- Representing the ‘Real’
- Living Performance
- Part One: The Monstrous Feminine: Lesbian Aesthetics in Process
- Another Con-Text
- Vanishing in Your Face: Embodiment and Representation in Lesbian Dance Performance
- Shall We Dance? Identification Through Linguistic Tropes and Performance
- Part Two: The Lesbian Body in Performance
- Performing the Lesbian Body--The New Wave
- Get Your Feminism Off My Floppy: Seedy ROMs and Technical Tales
- Fleshing It Out
- Part Three: From Margin to Center: Subversion or Assimilation?
- Drama Queens: Ruling with a Rod of Irony
- From Stage to Screen and Back: Tash Fairbanks’ Nocturne (ital) Shedding Some Light on Lesbian Representation and the Performance of Lesbian Desire
- The Laugh That Dare Not Speak Its Name
- Fo(u)r Women: The Art of Collaboration
- It’s Queer Up North: Production Values: Sarah-Jane Interviews Tanja Farman
- Part Four: Writing the Self in Performance: Femmes and Butches, Drag Queens and Kings, Vampires and Clowns
- Performing Butch/Femme Theory
- Coming Out at Night--Performing as the Lesbian Vampire Rosie Lugosi
- Presentation of Self as Performance: The Birth of Queenie aka Valerie Mason-John
- Angela de Castro: Clown in a Cold Country
- Feminine and Masculine Personnas in Performance: Sade Huron: A Drag Queen with a Dick
- Drag Kings and Subjects
- Index
About the author
Rapi, Nina; Chowdhry, Maya
